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...have you come to Washington?" a U.S. newsman asked last week. "To show." replied Guatemala's Presidentelect Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes with a smile, "that I am not the rightist monster I have been painted...
Norman William Smith '58, presidentelect of the HYRC, has expressed enthusiasm for the Forum and reportedly will participate in next Wednesday's meeting...
Familiar Routine. Becoming Presidentelect of his Nebraska-size country (pop. 2,350,000) in last fortnight's election (TIME, Dec. 13) worked little change on Batlle Berres. He rose as usual at 6 o'clock, after six hours' sleep. At his newspaper Action, he dummied up the editorial page, writing some of it himself. Rakishly jamming on his hat, he went to lunch at a modest restaurant, where the waiters gathered to congratulate him; he stood up to shake hands with them all. In the afternoon he began reading through 6.000 congratulatory cables and telegrams...
...Confederacy. In St. Louis, Federal boats were burned at the levee. In New York City, 15 hotels and Barnum's Museum were set afire in a vain effort to burn the whole city to the ground. In Louisville there was an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap Vice Presidentelect Andrew Johnson, and in Chicago, Hines himself arrived to direct "an armed rebellion of thousands of Copperheads." What happened there was to happen many times to Hines in his efforts to start rebellions in Illinois. Ohio and Indiana: the news leaked out. Federal troops arrived, and the leaders got cold feet...
...national reporting, Associated Press Special Correspondent Don Whitehead, 45, for his 4,400-word story on Presidentelect Eisenhower's secret trip to Korea. Correspondent Whitehead, one of the six newsmen to accompany Ike, and a previous Pulitzer winner for his reporting of the Korean war in 1951, has been an A.P. staffer for the last 18 years. If For local reporting under deadline pressure, the Providence (R.I.) Journal and Evening Bulletin, for coverage of the chase and capture of a bank robber. The city desk picked up the $51,000 robbery on the police radio, dispatched...